Evolutionary Equipment, Song Family
Compared to beast-type mounts, big trucks are actually more valuable.
After the Great Cataclysm, much information was lost.
Especially with the electromagnetic interference in the air.
Many mechanical vehicles could not be started.
Because of this, Blue Star even experienced a period akin to the Steam Age.
However, with the rise of the Mechanic profession,
mechanical vehicles like cars gradually returned to their original appearance.
But large heavy trucks like these are still very rare.
Aside from custom orders from merchant guilds,
ordinary people can't even buy them.
Lin Xuan naturally didn't want to keep these two heavy trucks.
He only needed to cast Void Walk once within ten seconds,
and the skill reduction effect would be maintained.
He had already cast it more than ten times in a row just now,
so the skill cooldown time was negligible.
Lin Xuan used Void Walk.
He quickly moved all the evolution stones from the truck into the villa.
Afterward, he handed the big trucks over to the Song Family Chamber of Commerce staff who had arrived with Chen Wanqiu.
“Five hundred boxes of evolution stones, I’m really rich now.”
Equipment evolution is the process of increasing an equipment's level.
For example, a level 40 equipment can be upgraded to level 50 or even 60.
Of course, the corresponding attributes will also increase with the level upgrade.
One evolution stone has a chance to increase an equipment's level by one.
This probability is better than enhancement, and if it fails, the level won't drop; instead, a progress bar will accumulate.
Once the progress bar is full, the equipment can evolve.
Lin Xuan decided to use all the evolution stones today.
Equipment evolution does not require going to the Enhancement Hall.
It can be done directly.
Lin Xuan used the Bullet Time skill to instantly open all the boxes.
They were all full, each containing one hundred evolution stones.
Five hundred boxes meant fifty thousand stones.
“That should be enough to evolve all my equipment to level sixty, right?”
Lin Xuan didn't have a sub-weapon, so he had a total of eleven pieces of equipment on him.
Among them, the death scythe weapon, being an ancient artifact, could change with the owner's level and could be excluded.
Of the remaining level 60 equipment, there were seven pieces.
There were still three pieces left.
They were the Raven Set's boots, which had an affix that could imbue weapons with fire.
The Queen Ant's unique necklace, which granted vision of summoned creatures.
And the fire-resistant magic robe, which could generate a shield equal to one's remaining health.
“I'll worry about the boots after clearing the dungeon. First, I'll evolve the necklace and the magic robe.”
Lin Xuan really wanted the unique drop from the Sandstone Fortress BOSS.
That was equipment that allowed a professional to walk on air.
Maybe it wasn't strong, but it was definitely cool!
It's just that the drop rate was said to be pitifully low.
【fire-resistant magic robe evolution successful, level +1.】
【fire-resistant magic robe evolution successful, level +1.】
【fire-resistant magic robe evolution successful, level +1.】
Three consecutive successes put Lin Xuan in a very good mood. Holding the evolution stone, he continuously clicked the evolve button in the equipment panel.
【fire-resistant magic robe evolution successful, level +1.】
【fire-resistant magic robe evolution successful, level +1.】
【…】
Thirteen consecutive evolutions were all successful!
The fire-resistant magic robe's equip level had already reached level fifty-three.
“Continue.”
【fire-resistant magic robe evolution successful, level +1.】
【fire-resistant magic robe evolution failed, current progress · 2%!】
【fire-resistant magic robe evolution failed, current progress · 4%!】
【fire-resistant magic robe evolution failed, current progress · 6%!】
“Each failure only increases progress by two points?”
Lin Xuan looked at the five hundred boxes of evolution stones in the room, suddenly feeling uncertain.
“Never mind, continue evolving!”
【fire-resistant magic robe evolution successful, level +1.】
“Holy crap! Awesome!”
After a failure, each use of an evolution stone has a chance to succeed directly, but usually, the higher the progress, the greater the chance.
This time, it succeeded with only six percent.
Lin Xuan felt his luck was really good.
He continued to enhance his equipment.
Soon, after spending nearly two hundred boxes, Lin Xuan successfully evolved two pieces of equipment to level sixty.
That was almost twenty thousand evolution stones.
Lin Xuan felt a pang of heartache.
There was no other way; subsequent equipment evolutions almost always failed, only accumulating the progress bar.
And after the level increased,
the progress accumulated per failure was very low.
From fifty-nine to sixty, each failure only accumulated 0.2% progress!
“No wonder ancient artifacts are priceless.” Lin Xuan shook his head, entering Lich King Form.
He transferred the remaining three hundred and nine boxes to his Frost Domain, then left the villa.
Mingzhu University in the morning was not particularly lively.
Most students had the habit of being night owls.
Lin Xuan wasn't in a hurry to go to the Dungeon Hall; instead, he first went to the Enhancement Hall.
Evolved equipment had this one advantage:
enhancements and enchantments could be inherited.
Arriving at the Enhancement Hall,
professionals could not use attack skills within the main city.
But the physical strength boosted by attributes remained.
Lin Xuan felt that the floor tiles at the entrance were even more damaged.
At the very least, when he last came here,
the path at the entrance, if not perfectly flat, was at least walkable.
Now, however, it was full of pits and hollows, enough to be graves.
“Don't stop me! Even if I die today, I want to see if this +10 can be achieved!”
“Young Master, calm down! This is our guild's last batch of enhancement gems; we really can't try again.”
“It's precisely because it's the last batch of gems that I absolutely must enhance it!”
“These people want to blame our guild for the high failure rate of enhancements; no way!”
A commotion came from a distance.
It was a blonde young man and a white-haired middle-aged man.
From their conversation, Lin Xuan also learned their identities.
It turned out to be the Song Family, one of the four great families of Jiang, Song, Kong, and Chen, whom he hadn't interacted with yet.
Listening to their argument,
it seemed that many professionals had recently experienced a greatly increased equipment enhancement failure rate.
This led them to believe that the Song Family Chamber of Commerce's enhancement gems were problematic.
And this person, suspected to be the Song family's young master, was indignant.
He wanted to prove that it wasn't the item that was bad, but the person.
As a result, he himself kept failing too.
Lin Xuan listened for a while and then lost interest.
Enhancement was just a matter of luck.
He remembered last time he came to the Enhancement Hall, he heard someone complaining about the Chen Clan Merchant Guild's gems.
However, this young master of the Song family, in Lin Xuan's eyes, seemed a bit devalued.
The blonde man looked to be the same age as him.
He should also be in college.
If so, comparing him to Chen Wanqiu, the Chen Clan's young lady,
Lin Xuan felt that
Chen Wanqiu was definitely stronger than him.
At least Chen Wanqiu would no longer use the guild's last enhancement gems to prove it wasn't the stone's problem.
Because this was already the last batch.
If it succeeded, fine.
But if it failed, wouldn't that prove there was a problem with the guild's items?
Lin Xuan didn't pay too much attention to the farce at the entrance.
He walked straight into the Enhancement Hall.
The atmosphere inside seemed even more frenzied than before.
Many people looked insane.
Some were smashing machines, some were crying one moment and laughing the next, and some were being treated for shortness of breath.
Lin Xuan even felt like backing out.
He always believed that probability events like equipment enhancement and opening treasure chests had a certain element of metaphysics.
For example, at certain times, the probability was just very low.
“Never mind, enhance!”
Lin Xuan had previously collected nearly a billion enhancement items.
He was preparing to get a full set of +10.
【death scythe enhancement successful, enhancement level +1.】
“Not bad, that’s +8 already.”
Lin Xuan smiled lightly, feeling that today was truly his lucky day.
Indeed, after continuing to enhance,
the death scythe weapon smoothly reached enhancement level +10.
Lin Xuan chose to continue enhancing.